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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: maximum10 on August 30, 2009, 06:50:55 AM
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hi
i have 2 OS on 2 hard drives, the second OS wasn't showing on boot up nor in the boot.ini
so i ran the recovery console and did the
bootcfg /rebuild
it found the second OS so i added it and named it Audio XP now when i boot up i have the option of my default OS and the Audio XP OS but when i boot into either it starts up in my default OS, so it seems on boot up that ive now got 2 choices of the same OS my second one still isn't there.
havent got a clue why its doing this.
thanks
edit to add: i dont have a boot loader and when ive had this working in the past i didnt use a boot loader, i think
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Was the 2nd os on the 2nd HDD installed with the 1st HDD hooked up ? ?
If not you will need to install a bootloader.
Or simply choose the drive at boot from within setup...
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tbh m8 i cant remember if the first HDD was hooked up or not, it was a while ago that id done this , cant remember when or why it stopped working.
i'll give a boot loader a try is there a free one you could recommend?
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If you check your BOOT.INI file it will probably show that it has 2 options, one saying windows xp, the other, audio xp, but they both boot to windows xp.
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yes thats exactly what its doing.
my boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Audio" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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does that boot.ini look correct?
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Where do you have the second os installed? It really should be on a different partition.
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its on a different HDD
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See Here... (http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm)
The boot ini is incorrect...if Audio is indeed installed to the second drive the disk # should be 1...not 0
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so it should read like this?
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Audio" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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Worth a try...did you read the article ? ?
Make sure to save a copy of the old one in case...
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missed the link the first time having a look now thanks, and ill try that ini change in a min
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ok just gave that a go, the error i got was
windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem
could not read from the selected boot disk, check boot path and disk hardware
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what if i try this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Audio" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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that didnt work i got the error
windows could not start because of the following missing or corupt files
<windows root>\system32\hal.dll
please reinstall a copy of the above file
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a m8 has suggested to try Ubuntu so ill give that a go cause i have no idea what else i can try :-\
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just had another look at the bios and the HDD's are set up like this
IDE Channel 0 master {none}
IDE Channel 1 slave {none}
IDE Channel 1 master {sony dvd rw]
IDE Channel 1 slave [hl-dt-st gce-8481b]
IDE Channel 2 master [WDC 74]
IDE Channel 3 master [maxtor]
IDE Channel 4 master [hitachi]
IDE Channel 5 master [none]
so looks like all my HDD are set to master, should i only have 1 master and the rest slaves?
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Just use the BIOS to switche between drives at bootup...
Does this machine have an addon PCI IDE controller card ? ?
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i dont think this machine has the option to change what order the HDD boot
its either HDD or floppy cd/dvd ect.
i dont if it has a PCI IDE controller card m8 ???
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ok so now i swaped my main HDD with the other HDD on my mobo
and when i boot up i get the NTLDR is missing.
would this be the reason i have no duel boot?